The Ashes of the Phoenix [OPEN]

[thethirdspecies]

WHO: John Sublime, "No Girl", the U-Men, and their unfortunate target... The Insitute
WHAT: Sublime's U-Men attack the school. They're aiming for the sublevels. Stop them at all costs!
WHERE: Throughout campus
WHEN: Past midnight, Wednesday-Thursday
WARNING(S): Gonna get violent.


The time was now. The media attention over his followers actions was too much. And after all, Xavier's little henchmen in London had figured it out. He was sure of it. There was no more time to bide. No more room for hesitation. It was act now, or the revolution would end in a prison cell, festering away in the disgusting care of this unclean world. Sublime couldn't stomach it. Couldn't fathom it. And whatever god help those who stood in the way of him and his dream of Homo Perfectus.

"All units are in place," Sublime whispered, peering out over the immaculate green, covered in moonlight, staring a drilling, piercing hole into the mansion. "Martha... it's your turn now," another whisper, as the floating apparatus before him, holding a strange glowing orb, began to shine even more brightly.

Just like that, the security systems failed. And just like that, Charles Xavier gasped and sent out a short, psychic burst to all X-Men, perhaps to everyone in the school, before he was overwhelmed and silenced, collapsing from his bed to the floor, stunned into sleep by a psychic force even he was not prepared for.

"This is it, Martha... our dream... U-Men! Bring me the Ashes of the Phoenix!" And like that, dozens of the men from the blurred video that Glamour and Spy had managed to obtain swarmed the ground, organic and mechanical, using a plethora of stolen mutant powers, attacked.


[[ This is it! Our first major action post, and in X-Men tradition, it's a direct attack on campus. Feel free to start your own threads. The U-Men will be NPC'd by the mods. Their ultimate goal is the filed away genetic samples of Jean Grey in the sublevels. They must be stopped, before someone uses them to integrate Jean's powers into a U-Man. ]]

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[vulgarcrocodile]

"I guess it's just that time of the year again." Kaito is already pulling on some clothes. He simultaneously floats a case from out of the closet that he keeps his guns in. Who it was attacking, he didn't know. But it didn't matter, it never did. When someone attacked their home, they needed to defend it.

"Are you staying in here or going out?"

[gloriousandfree]

She turns back from the hallway and sighs, walking over to the windows. At least she could help with students. She was dangerous with a hockey stick and well, she was a decent shot, if just as stubbornly against using a gun as she had been about learning to shoot one.

"Out. Not out out but. I'll try to keep the students safe at least."

She waffled over adding pants to her shirt and robe ensemble. Did she really need to add to her shredded clothing count if she had to shift? Was it worth being warmer.

"I assume you're going out out, in which case, you know the rules. No getting hurt."

[vulgarcrocodile]

"I'll try my best to stick to the rule, but you know some other people like to break them." He opens the case up with his telekinsis and floats two guns out of it with their clips and over to him.

"I expect you to not to get yourself hurt too." Because he will kill anyone that dares to hurt her.

[gloriousandfree]

"Pft, when do I get hurt? Never that's when."

She definitely sounds a little absentminded as she speaks. She's too caught up in trying to think of what else she might need. She hasn't exactly been a part of any sort of defense in several years.

"Find me when it's over, okay? And grab my robe if you see it somewhere, I probably had to shift."

She steps to the doorway and smiles back at him.

"You're good before I go, right?"